Richard A Fabes, Erin Pahlke, Kathrine Galligan, Adrienne Borders
{"title":"U.S. Principals' Attitudes About and Experiences with Single-Sex Schooling.","authors":"Richard A Fabes, Erin Pahlke, Kathrine Galligan, Adrienne Borders","doi":"10.1080/03055698.2015.1005576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2015.1005576","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting the use of single-sex education, the number of U.S. public schools offering single-sex education has increased. However, our understanding as to why decision-makers have implemented single-sex education is lacking. To address this gap, we surveyed U.S. public-school principals and assessed their attitudes about and experiences with single-sex schooling. Sixty-seven principals from single-sex schools and 193 from coeducational schools participated. The results indicated that principals who had experience with single-sex schooling tended to have more positive attitudes about single-sex schooling, viewed it as more effective, and more often evoked gender-essentialist rationales for the use of single-sex schooling than did coeducational principals. However, both single-sex and coeducational principals noted issues with single-sex schooling. It was concluded that single-sex schooling is not a silver bullet to educational reform and that when single-sex schooling is implemented, one set of issues and problems is substituted for another.</p>","PeriodicalId":47443,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies","volume":"41 3","pages":"293-311"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03055698.2015.1005576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34303474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}